I bought a VIA PC2500 board a few days ago - thisnew series of their mobos,

This beast looks nice - after replacing their coolingsystem (that had a small fan on it) with larger butfanless, -- it becomes a almost real PC (1500MHz CPU),equipped with quite nice crypto and multimedia abilities,but with very low power consumption and very quiet.

But the thing is - it doesn't quite work.

It works generally - it boots, I can run my usual appsetc. But on a random (yet frequent) basis it segfaultshere and there. For example:

(There are other - simple and comples - applications whichinhibits this problem. For example, it 99% reliable segfaultson compiling aic79xx_core.c file in kernel, while all the rest(in my configuration anyway) compiles, at least after secondattempt).

It's definitely NOT memory issue - I tried several differentmemory modules (and different combinations) - the same results;I ran memtest86 for several days - no single error.

I've seen a thread here on LKML about C7 and C3 CPUs back inMarch this year - tried with patch from Andi titled"i386: Enable CX8/PGE CPUID bits early on VIA C3" - it didn'tchange anything (this board does not lock up - not when bootingnor when doing something, -- just random applications arecrashing randomly, and the crash is always SIGSEGV; there's_nothing_ in dmesg about that, too).

From all the above it seems like something's broke on themotherboard (I've no idea what it can be however - becausememory testing - which also tests for CPU cache for exampe -shows no errors; testing disk controller/disk using md5 doesnot show errors either, except of occasional SIGSEGVs)..

However, being very curious about this, I tried installing'doze on this machine - winXP. And that one went just finewithout any error so far -- i tried stress-testing it as faras I can imagine, running various applications and workloads, --no errors.